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October 29th, 2009 - 4:21 pm § in Art

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Paperback)

Amazon.com Review New York Burning is a well-told tale of a once-notorious episode that took place in Manhattan in 1741. Though, as Jill Lepore writes, New York’s “slave past has long been buried,” for most of the 18th century one in five inhabitants of Manhattan were enslaved, mak[...]